Arbor Church

This week, Jake opens our new series about “felt needs” – needs we all have but that that we don’t often talk about – with a message about our need to be known, and how God can meet that need even though He often feels distant.

Jake and Garrett team up for the last message in this series: a sobering rundown of what isn’t working in today’s churches, and a proposal for how we hope to make a real difference by doing things really differently. Plus, your questions about groups answered!

The amount of pain and need in the world can be completely overwhelming. We can’t help everyone – but as Christians we can’t turn a blind eye and help no one, either. Jake shares a simple principle that we can use to make a difference.

We’re a church that says that we believe in missional living … in fact, we believe it’s the key to making disciples. Jake kicks off the series by unpacking some of the Biblical metaphors that call us to let our faith be known.

Bob wraps up our series on Ruth with the story of Ruth’s redemption through Boaz, and the ways in which it parallels our own redemption through Jesus.

Ruth’s story is about both providence and redemption, and today Jake brings these themes together to talk about the way God provides for us in ways that often aren’t at all obvious at the time.

In the first of a three-part series on Ruth, Bob teaches through the first chapter of Ruth, and talks about the bitterness and sweetness of following God.

Do we have to forgive those who’ve wronged us? If so, why? And, more importantly … how can we ever do it, especially when the wrong is repeated and the offender unrepentant? How do you know if you’ve forgiven someone? Jake tackles these questions and more in his final message on the One Anothers.

Guest speaker Rory Eldridge tells us what’s up with all of the passages in Scripture that tell us to encourage each other, and illustrates just how powerful our words can be.

The scripture often exhorts us to “be unified” – but what does that even mean? Garrett takes a look at what unity is (and isn’t) and why it’s so important in a time when the church and nation are more divided than ever.